Guilty plea seen for Wall Street scion Caspersen in fraud case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street executive Andrew Caspersen will likely plead guilty next month to criminal charges over an alleged $150 million fraud scheme, after compulsive gambling drove him to make huge, failed bets against the U.S. stock market, …
Metals company CEO pleads guilty in New York over Iran exports
(Reuters) – A New York City man who runs a metallurgy company pleaded guilty on Tuesday to having conspired to illegally export missile-grade metallic powder to Iran, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Employee charged with murder in death of New York chiropractor
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A 60-year-old chiropractor in upstate New York, whose death last year was originally attributed to natural causes, was poisoned by her 23-year-old employee who has been charged with murder, police alleged on Tuesday.
U.S. doctors call gun violence a ‘public health crisis’
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history has prompted the American Medical Association to call gun violence a “public health crisis” and urge that Congress fund research into the problem.
Woman sentenced to probation for graffiti at seven U.S. national parks
(Reuters) – A woman who defaced rock formations in seven U.S. national parks with drawings, then photographed and posted the graffiti on social media has been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges, U.S. prosecutors said on…
Chicago cop relieved of duties after head-stomping caught on video
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Chicago police officer has been relieved of his duties after a video posted online showed him stomping on a man’s head during an attempted arrest, officials said on Tuesday.
Texas judge drops misdemeanor charge against anti-abortion activist
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A Texas judge on Tuesday dropped a misdemeanor charge regarding the purchase of human tissue against an anti-abortion activist indicted for using a fake driver’s license ID to aid secret filming inside a Planned Parenthood fac…
Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’ goes on trial
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page appeared in a Los Angeles court for a civil trial that opens on Tuesday in which they are accused of stealing the opening chords of their 1971 classic “Stairway to Heaven…
Wolf dens, not lone wolves, the norm in U.S. Islamic State plots
NEW YORK (Reuters) – If Omar Mateen acted alone in plotting the massacre of 49 people at Orlando’s Pulse gay nightclub, he would be the exception rather than the rule in U.S. cases involving suspected Islamic State supporters.
Baltimore’s National Aquarium to set up dolphin sanctuary
(Reuters) – Baltimore’s National Aquarium will create the first U.S. dolphin sanctuary and transfer its eight dolphins there, the aquarium said on Tuesday.
